Where are our alumni working now?

On completion of their Technology Policy degree, our students have secured an impressive range of positions reflecting the diversity of the students and their interests. The table below provides a list of the sectors and a sampling of some of the firms where our graduates have found employment. Although not intended to be comprehensive, the table generally lists those firms and organisations that have employed the greatest number of our graduates (e.g. McKinsey is the consultancy which has employed the most graduates and Shell is the largest employer among the energy firms).

Career paths

The largest number of graduates (some 25%) find employment at consultancies, followed by finance (20%), government (15%), large ICT firms (15%), energy firms (10%), as well as international organisations, health care, infrastructure, design, legal, media, transport and aerospace, NGOs and technology start-ups.

The main employers among the large consultancies are McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC, Accenture, BCG, Booz, medium-sized consultancies such as PA Consulting or Analysys Mason, as well as a number of small, boutique consultancies who are specialists in IT, logistics or energy.

The next largest alumni groups are in finance and in government agencies. Typical financial sector firms include Standard Chartered Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland or JP Morgan as well as development banks such as Korea Development Bank and the Indian National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. Many find employment in their national governments or join us during a sabbatical year during government (or military) service.

Many graduates go to work in a range of jobs in large multinational firms in the ICT/telecoms sectors and the energy industry. Typical firms employing our graduates include Shell, GDF Suez, Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and GE although some find employment at smaller or national firms.

Students also find employment in international agencies or multilateral banks such as the World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Asian Development Bank, the United Nations system, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Energy Agency.

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Innovation and technological progress is the key engine of growth in the globalised economy. However, technological change needs capability of policy makers and entrepreneurs. In my client countries in Eastern Europe, many have already utilised the skills and knowledge learnt in the Cambridge Technology Policy programme in creating a national innovation system unique to those countries.
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Motoo Kusakabe, Senior Counsellor to the President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Some 15-20 per cent of our graduates go on to further graduate work either immediately or after several years, to doctoral studies in economics, innovation, engineering as well as professional studies such as law and MBAs or PhDs in pure and applied sciences.